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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTell me why your state has the worst Republicans in the country.
I'm from Wisconsin.
We subjected you to invertebrate speaker of the house Paul Ryan.
We elected union busting Scott Walker, twice.
We gave up Russ Feingold for Ron Johnson, trading in the smartest most ethical man in the senate for the dumbest, most morally bankrupt senator.
And we are voting tomorrow, even though there's a pandemic. Thanks to our Republican state government assholes, particularly Scott Fitzgerald.
Yessir, we grow the biggest assholes in the country.
dchill
(38,447 posts)Wisconsin wins the day.
ornotna
(10,795 posts)I'm done.
rzemanfl
(29,554 posts)Funtatlaguy
(10,862 posts)Celerity
(43,121 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,525 posts)MoonlitKnight
(1,584 posts)And our newest resident, Donald F-Ing Trump.
Oh, and dont forget Katherine Harris from the stolen 2000 election.
William769
(55,144 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,075 posts)Leningrad Lindsey Graham
Tim Useful Idiot Scott
Trump's Biggest Asslicker Gov. Henry Mc Master
Benghazzzzziiiii Gowdy
Jeff Batshit Crazy Duncan
Mark Sanford Hiking the Appalachia Trail
Nikki The Phony Haley
Ralph Did yall hear this latest late-breaking news on the Kavanaugh hearings?
Ruth Bader Ginsburg came out saying she was groped by Abraham Lincoln. Norman
My so-called "representative", Joe You Lie Wilson
This also the same state who gave us MANY decades of the vile Sperm Thurmond.
South Carolina has a quarter of the population of Florida. On a per capita basis, we may have you beat.
In It to Win It
(8,225 posts)rufus dog
(8,419 posts)SUCK IT!!!!!!! (sorry fellow DUers)
We have a few assholes, Nunes is top, but other than that we have a State legislature where repukes have limited to no influence.
We do have a Senator who does NOT represent the majority of her constituents.
Retrograde
(10,130 posts)Nunes, Issa, Rohbacker, Hunter - and who can forget Kevin McCarthy. much as we'd like to? Not a lot of them in the state, but they do their darnest to be absolute scum.
DBoon
(22,340 posts)I hope we have made up for those two.
appalachiablue
(41,103 posts)Not enough room but start with Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, Newt, Ken Starr..
calikid
(584 posts)Response to Retrograde (Reply #23)
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TeamPooka
(24,209 posts)The Figment
(494 posts)I live in Afkansastan
CanonRay
(14,084 posts)Ours just go hide.
marlakay
(11,427 posts)niyad
(113,074 posts)P
hunter
(38,303 posts)Republican California is every bit as awful as Republican U.S.A..
P.S. Ronald Reagan
NBachers
(17,081 posts)mnhtnbb
(31,374 posts)the most important thing to do when he was briefed on coronavirus in January was to make sure he made a buck personally by selling stocks. What a guy!
mwooldri
(10,301 posts)NRA Poster Boy and Trump bootlicker. (And until recently Mark Meadows!)
econron
(152 posts)Grassley
Ernst
King
Reynolds
Pate
rownesheck
(2,343 posts)We have Ted Cruz, John Cornyn, the eyepatch guy, gohmert, Greg Abbott, Kevin Brady, the dentist guy whose son played Spider in School of Rock, Ken paxton, and I could go on forever. They're all scum sucking pieces of shits.
Tech
(1,769 posts)Wisconsin tally, Mr foxxconn himself, Wisconsin is the clear winner of assholery Republicans. Some are going to the past, so let us not forget Joseph McCarthy.
lkinwi
(1,477 posts)Democrat 4 Ever
(3,941 posts)Moscow Mitch McConnell, Crazy Eyes Rand Paul, and Idiot Man Thomas Massie. And those are just three The rest of the representives are just as bad with the exception of John Yarmuth, the lone democratic rep. Got a pretty neat Governor though.
greymattermom
(5,751 posts)budkin
(6,699 posts)Otherwise, why would they oppose the delay?
Poiuyt
(18,117 posts)Too late to counterattack
AleksS
(1,665 posts)Yup. With Milwaukee only running 5 instead of the usual 180 polling places, and since thats where most of the left leaning votes come from ( Milwaukee and Madison, with Milwaukee leading in volume) expect a clean right wing sweep today.
They literally are willing to murder (and have no doubts about it, holding elections today is premeditated, cold blooded murder) to keep their lock on the Supreme Court.
How many die from COVID infections caught today because of the GOP Supreme Courts decision to protect their position at all costs? Every one of those deaths are laid at the GOPs feet.
demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)need I say more?
edhopper
(33,484 posts)Trump and Guiliani.
I win
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,816 posts)Including our current Governor, Michelle Lujan Grisham. She was very early in closing non-essential businesses, then tightening that closure.
But then the president of the Albuquerque Tea Party sued her over those closures. He's an idiot.
https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/coronavirus/albuquerque-tea-party-president-sues-lujan-grisham-over-coronavirus-lockdown/article_9ee22126-6eaa-11ea-a75d-cbdefda582d7.html
SWBTATTReg
(22,077 posts)possible CV positive cases (I'm guessing)...
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,816 posts)And in fact, a quick Google search shows absolutely nothing like that.
Your source was apparently not a good one.
SWBTATTReg
(22,077 posts)one have an article that of all states (New Mexico), stating that NM is blocking TX traffic? Go figure. I ran across this article, oh, I say about two / three weeks ago, and it really stuck in my mind (I'm in Missouri, and one of my best friends in High School moved to NM, lost track of him since).
I thought it was a good idea (blocking traffic), I suspect it was due to the CV, but I didn't pursue the article, you know how it is, we read literally dozens/hundreds of articles a day on DU, some of these articles of course have the sources linked in too, but who reads all of them?
Usually a snapshot/analysis is good enough for me. I too, tried quickly searching for the article, but alas, no luck. Perhaps I'll run across again. I personally think that down the road, states will start getting more aggressive in blocking traffic, in order to somewhat control what's flowing into their states, especially since we can't get an integrated federal response to this whole thing. Rump is a mess and worthless.
Now I'm going to have a 'worm' in my ear, and thus, will be on the lookout for this article...ahhhh!!!!
Take care and Be safe!
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,816 posts)It sounds so improbable that it requires a second look.
Supposedly Florida and Rhode Island are trying to stop New Yorkers from coming to their states. Not sure how efficient that can be. Plus, it's not possible to block every single road crossing state borders. There are simply too many of them.
Johnny2X2X
(18,973 posts)Do I win?
leighbythesea2
(1,200 posts)To Wisconsin. Lol. Prince has to be in on the PPE for profit scheme.
And someday we will find out what the pings from Spectrum Health to the server said in 2016.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,823 posts)No shortage of stupid people here but the repubs are under wraps for now.
NBachers
(17,081 posts)AwakeAtLast
(14,123 posts)They're not under wraps here, unfortunately.
They're already to "Git back to werk".
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,823 posts)AwakeAtLast
(14,123 posts)My ancestors helped settle the area, so I have a lot of family here. We moved back three years ago. The Trump Cult has made it worse, I'm afraid.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,823 posts)AwakeAtLast
(14,123 posts)We made the right decision, MAGAts be damned!
TomSlick
(11,088 posts)Try to tell me you can beat that!
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)TomSlick
(11,088 posts)We may be doing something akin to comparing virtue among harlots.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)Warren_Pointe
(327 posts)And I thought Frank White was as bad as it could get. Huckabee if Frank White on Meth and Steroids.
TomSlick
(11,088 posts)Frank was merely incompetent. Huckabee and our boy Tom are actively evil.
Sucha NastyWoman
(2,741 posts)lostnfound
(16,162 posts)Ohiogal
(31,917 posts)Gym Jordan. Nuff said ...
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,852 posts)I dont know which state is the worst.
I pretty much EXPECT the worst from either Alabama or Mississippi, though, like the George Wallace types.
Texas has the highest number of creepy GOP politicians that Ive recognized lately.
Skittles
(153,113 posts)do I really even need to explain?
SWBTATTReg
(22,077 posts)governor that got kicked out of office) finally closed non essential businesses across the state. The two major metro areas STLMO and KCMO (perhaps even Springfield MO) had all closed their non essential businesses TWO weeks ago.
And now these republican states, who refused to close down stuff, are finding out that the virus doesn't play favorites and now their rural areas are getting slammed. Probably from churches and other organizations that think they are immune (and aren't of course, the virus doesn't play favorites). As a result of this, these states deliberately stressed their hospital resources and there are probably aren't very many open slots available anymore to help others, being that states now are dealing w/ their own sick populations who need hospital care (and worse, ICU care).
LisaM
(27,794 posts)Mitch McConnell is pure wickedness, and without him, SCOTUS might not have voted as it did today.
Bayard
(22,011 posts)Say no more, say no more.
cayugafalls
(5,639 posts)Sacrifice old people to test Trumps claims!
Ted Cruz...we subjected y'all to Green eggs and ham spoken with a nice drawl.
Yay, Texas...
DeminPennswoods
(15,265 posts)'nuff said
AJT
(5,240 posts)Don't forget that Milwaukee will be voting tomorrow with 5 polling places rather than the over 100 they usually have...
MontanaMama
(23,296 posts)Steve Daines and notorious journalist body slammer, Greg Gianforte. Thug.
WyLoochka
(1,629 posts)Well three, gotta count old Lynn Cheney in when talking about the worst.
And we are stuck with the used to be "Dr" - John Barasso - now chief facilitator of the many dirty deeds hatched by that evil bastid Moscow Mitch.
33taw
(2,436 posts)brewens
(13,541 posts)stuff Pelosi had in the CV stimulus bill. The one that got me was, a union rep would have to be on every corporate board. Yeah right. Just where do those union reps come from? Most corporations don't have a union workforce. They might have some union trade guys employed, but that's not what it's suggesting.
When called on it, asked to provide a link, he said it was a leaked draft and it was stuff the republicans forced her to take out. Then I saw an almost identical "draft" that another right-winger got from Breitbart.
I wen to school with our rep and blasted that for being irresponsible as an elected official.
UTUSN
(70,649 posts)Bettie
(16,076 posts)instead they are the dumbest, at least in terms of Senators.
Chuckles Grassley and Joni "cut yer nuts off" Ernst.
Bettie
(16,076 posts)Steve King. Ugh. Among the very worst, but not currently the most vocal.
jmowreader
(50,529 posts)Idaho is supposed to have the most insane Republicans in America, but compared to McConnell, the Pauls, anyone in Florida and Wisconsin's brand of lunatics, ours seem absolutely rational.
But I won't disappoint. We have:
Shaun Winkler: Grand Wizard of the local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. Don't ask me why we have a local chapter of the KKK because we have very few African-Americans. Ran for sheriff a few years back. Campaigned on the promise that if elected he wouldn't hold any cross lighting ceremonies while he was in office.
Heather Scott: State legislator. Participated in the Malheur Standoff.
Tina Kunishige: Ran for sheriff in 2016. Too insane to make it past the Republican primary, so ran as a Democrat. Wanted to remove all weapons larger than pistols from the sheriff's armory. Is known to have constructed a working replica, that fires live ammunition at full cyclic rate, of a General Electric M134 "Minigun" 4000-round-per-minute machine gun.
Larry Craig: Needs no introduction but will get one anyway. Craig is not here because of his policies, which would get him bounced into the Democratic caucus if he tried any of them in the Age of Trump. He's here because he was arrested for soliciting bathroom sex at an airport.
Helen Chenoweth (RIP): Let's put it this way: If they would have had sovereign citizens before 2006, she would have been one. (I say "before 2006" because that's when she died in a car crash.) Was among the first to call for Bill Clinton's resignation over the Lewinsky affair, but had committed adultery herself.
redstateblues
(10,565 posts)LakeArenal
(28,804 posts)Ron Johnson, Reince Priebus, Robin Vos, Jim Sensenbrenner, Sean Duffy
Those are just the ones people have heard of. Wisconsin has to be the winner (?).
mvd
(65,161 posts)Toomey and Santorum before him.
Butterflylady
(3,537 posts)What jackass he is!!!!!
mvd
(65,161 posts)he never met a safety net program he didnt want to cut or get rid of. Big Club for Growth (in rich people) guy.
Freddie
(9,257 posts)Lip service to doing the right thing and of course never does. Makes noises about being concerned for people on occasion.
If it werent for Gov. Wolf wed be Kansas.
catrose
(5,060 posts)7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)forget our most beloved, Louis Gohmert. Yeah, I think Texas wins..... hands down
Especially with Cornyn. Been dealing with this evil f since 2000 when he was Atty General and my company would not write him a $50,000 check for his coming campaign for Senate. He shut company down.
DrToast
(6,414 posts)NV Republicans are kind of boring... and thats good.
NameAlreadyTaken
(976 posts)and he died 3 weeks before he won his election.
https://nypost.com/2019/03/28/nevada-brothel-owner-dennis-hofs-cause-of-death-revealed/
Initech
(100,041 posts)And we also had a recall election that replaced a democratic governor with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
And the people behind said recall are attempting to recall Gavin Newsom, because, democrat.
walkingman
(7,583 posts)Cruz, Cornyn, Paxton, Berman, Farenthold, Radcliffe, Gohmert, Paul, Miller.....I could actually go on and on but unless your a Texan you would not grasp just how terrible these folks are. Texas is the personification of everything wrong with the GOP.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Poiuyt
(18,117 posts)states in America
RANDYWILDMAN
(2,664 posts)Total Fuckery that he was re-elected(close enough to be stolen) but after that fake David Koch call I can't believe anybody would vote for him.
Oregon, We had a carpetbagging frat boy friend of Yale loser Brett Kavanaugh, Chris Dudley mostly known as tall white guy in the NBA, run for Governor because he was a rich repub, he had a real and true hatred of the little people, a true reputation as a cheater, drinker and just a generally despicable person. He also was pretty much known to live in Camus Washington area for the the beautiful smells and taxes breaks, he almost won had not a lick of experiance, just because of outside of the state dark money.
Captain Zero
(6,785 posts)nt
FormerWIRepub
(19 posts)I guess as a first post this seems like a pretty good topic to throw my hat in the ringer on, especially considering my username. (picked it before this fiasco) by the way.
It's gotta be Wisconsin, without question for the reasons mentioned above.
I'll be the first to admit, I like Paul Ryan as he's been personally very very thoughtful and courteous to my family in a time he didn't need to be (a story for another day) but I can't stand Scott Walker, Ron Johnson and 98% of the rest of them.
I used to be one. I'm thankful to that my eyes have been opened and I see the light now.
As a side, I look forward to conversing with all of you. It's nice to have place where I know there may be somethings I disagree with others on but can be treated with respect. That doesn't happen on the other, my former side of the aisle.
milestogo
(16,829 posts)I've heard that Paul Ryan is a very nice person, heard that from Democratic politicians.
This election business has really turned the spotlight on our state. I'm actually glad we're voting today, for the sake of the judicial race, but it does introduce risk for people.
I just voted in person in Madison. Everyone wore masks and gloves, they had a system.
But the ballot scanner stopped working while I was in there. After 10 minutes of trying to fix it, and more and more people gathering around, they finally called downtown to ask for another machine. They collected all of our ballots and put them in a plastic bag.
So, not the smoothest vote I've had, but everyone was trying to be safe and keep it working.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,106 posts)elections.
GA governor stole his election but so did many others.
Now the actions of GOP are killing us. They still dont seem to care.
But, welcome!
marble falls
(57,013 posts)how do you feel about the Democrats who ran against him?
BunnyMcGee
(463 posts)I lurked for years on DU myself, I think since 2004. I'm just south of you in Northern Illinois and I like to visit Wisconsin, especially since Walker isn't Gov.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,488 posts)most of the good country people through the heartland allowed themselves to be brainwashed by the ultra-wealthy's conservative spin machine, from Spiro Agnew to Reagan to Gingrich to Limbaugh to Falwell's Moral Majority and finally to Faux News.
Those things birth GOP politicians like McConnell, Rand Paul and Thomas Massie.
Whew! I guess that covers it......
Itchinjim
(3,084 posts)IADEMO2004
(5,554 posts)She has rewarded the GOP with a steady stream of lies, stupidity, heartless voting, and tireless tRump/McConnell ass kissing.
Gothmog
(144,939 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,325 posts)GA's governor, KY's senators, there are so many great choices for "Worst Republican", MI doesn't have a chance.
Not complaining, of course ...
(We do have Justin Amash, a former Republican, who left the party because it, and its Tea Party sub-group, were just too liberal.)
Dawgman49
(224 posts)lindsey graham...enough said
5X
(3,972 posts)empedocles
(15,751 posts)Reverend Pat ['oral sex on private Lady parts the root of virus', etc.] Robertson.
SuprstitionAintthWay
(386 posts)Republican pieces of shit!
The Jerry Falwells, the original endlessly-spewing plague and his spawn both.
Pat Robertson. Pat "Daddy this ship is going to WAR! get me OFF of it!" 700 club fucking Robertson. Him, his tv network of scam artists of the elderly, and his entire blight-on-the-nation Regent bad joke of a "University" and its Christian shariah "law school."
And we have the NRA's Headquarters, and countless rightwing "think" tanks and lobbyists in the DC suburbs.
Virginia.
A much-improved place to be recently, of course. But.
lanlady
(7,133 posts)Ken the Kook Cuccinelli
Perennial nutjob Corey Stewart
The law faculty at George Mason University
Even so, we're doing well at keeping the crazies in check. Governor Northam smacked down that idiot Falwell Jr but good on the issue of keeping Liberty U shut during the CV crisis. We have a lot to be proud of.
lark
(23,065 posts)MaryMagdaline
(6,851 posts)So that it cannot accommodate more than a pre-designated number of filers. That way his numbers would look low. Hes now in senate but we are stuck with his non-workable system.
His successor allowed spring break to go on during a pandemic.
redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)kairos12
(12,843 posts)Because McCain begat Palin who begat Trump.
xmas74
(29,671 posts)He's an idiot. My former is Eric Greitens, aka Governor Grey tape. My senators are Roy Blunt and Josh Hawley. My congressperson is Vicky Hartzler. She wrote a book about how she had no opinion about anything and would wait for God to tell her how to vote every time.
A state rep recently tried to pass a bill that would inprison librarians for content he didn't approve of, such as Drag Queen Story Hour.
Should I keep going?
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,258 posts)At least we got rid of Matt Bevin.
muntrv
(14,505 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Our Republicans nominated Christine ODonnell, the anti-masturbation witch for US Senate!
SuprstitionAintthWay
(386 posts)...I check this thread.
Wow. Republicans.
I'd forgotten all about her.
Thanks for reminding us and lightening up this Scroll of Horrors.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Darwin2019
(217 posts)Senator Rick Scott maybe? Gov DeSantis?
aeromanKC
(3,322 posts)I'm from MO, but even though I can see KS in the final spot our delegation could give them a run for their money.
MO: Corona Death Governor Parson, Sen's Blunt and Hawley, Don't forget legitimate rape Akin and a veto proof GOP Assembly.
yonder
(9,657 posts)Steve Symms, Helen Chenowith, Raul Labrador, Jim Risch, countless, nameless, faceless GOP state legislators, George Hansen, Richard Butler, Russ whats-his-name Belcher? Fulcher, Vito Barbieri, Butch Otter, strawberry farmer, father of 15 and perennial gubernatorial candidate Prolife (I kid you not), Gary Glenn, Bill Sali, Heather Scott (codename: greenbean), Larry "footsies" Craig, Ammon Bundy.... I could go on and on 'cause this is Idaho.
unstuck-in-time
(1 post)Maybe not the worst, but Minnesota had the most whacked out crazy in Michele Bachmann.
TheFarseer
(9,317 posts)The reps we send to Congress mostly just turn off their brain and vote whatever way the Republican establishment tells them to, but they are normally not particularly heinous. Our state government has some wackos for sure but the moderates that dont screw anything up too bad almost always win out. Its just annoying we have to be more moral than though constantly so we cant get legal weed, gambling or anything like that. My vote would be for Kansas or Wisconsin.
Rhiannon12866
(204,779 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)When I know the name of some representative from some place far-flung from me, it's usually not for a good reason.
And she is definitely one I've noticed.
Rhiannon12866
(204,779 posts)When she showed up on TV alongside Gym Jordan. Here in NY-21, there have been protests outside her local office ever since she won her first term in 2015, taking the place of moderate Democrat Bill Owens who retired. Even before this, she refused to publicize her schedule ahead of time since she knew protesters were likely to show up. I don't know how she keeps winning, for the last election, 10 Democrats initially stepped up for the nomination. BTW, her mentor was Paul Ryan.
We have John Barrasso, the big time Trump lackey.
I sure would like to see a Democrat make a serious run at Enzi's seat. I've heard very little about who's even running on the Democrat side, but I believe they have until the end of May to enter the race.
Different Drummer
(7,605 posts)Anybody care to try topping that?
NNadir
(33,475 posts)...Chris Christie, the corrupt boorish asshole who legitimized the worst President in history before he was President.
But, we have two Democratic Senators, a Democratic Governor, a Democratic Assembly, and a Democratic State Senate.
I love New Jersey.
misanthrope
(7,411 posts)The proof is the state of Alabama
Lunabell
(6,046 posts)He should have closed the beaches before all those spring break kids came down and infected us with the coronavirus. He chooses money over people.
stonecutter357
(12,694 posts)Midnightwalk
(3,131 posts)Nothing compares to the leaking biolab of weaponized republicanism in Wisconsin. Keep fighting them, were with you in spirit.
But in my book the worst are probably in ny and california. Thats where the rich and powerful tend to be. Those are the republicans that fund all this crap.
hack89
(39,171 posts)but we have Democrats that still proudly carry on our tradition of graft and corruption.
Aquaria
(1,076 posts)Because everythings bigger in Texas. Including the stupid, the corrupt and the just plain mean.
LAS14
(13,769 posts)... a history of that. It's always puzzled me that the only state that voted for George McGovern could have elected fifteen Republican governors and thirteen Democrats since 1911.
Any ideas?
tia
las